The Prichard Committee supports parents as essential learning partners for their own children and all children across the Commonwealth. We partner with local and regional organizations to inform and engage parents and other caregivers across Kentucky, ultimately building parents’ capacity to champion education excellence for each Kentucky student.

The Governor’s Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership (GCIPL) is a flagship initiative of the Prichard Committee created to develop the capacity to support successful public schools for all students. The Institute supports the planning and implementation of productive school/family/community partnerships to improve student achievement. Participants of our training learn the value of shared decision-making in the school improvement process.

The Prichard Committee developed GCIPL 1997 as a way to support informed, skilled, parents as effective advocates who are passionate about improving Kentucky public schools. Since its inception, GCIPL has trained more than 2,450 Kentucky parents and community members on how to effectively advocate for high-quality schools. More than four dozen GCIPL fellows have served on school boards, over 760 have served on school councils, and hundreds more are involved daily in education advocacy.

This work is made possible through generous corporate, foundation, and university grants.

Kentucky’s Early Childhood Development Fund uses 25% of Kentucky’s annual revenue from the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement to support the full development of our youngest children. Here’s how the 2017-18 funding is being put to use under the budget adopted in 2016:$9,000,000 for the Health Access Nurturing Development Services (HANDS)$8,894,700 for the Early Childhood […]

| Post by Cory Curl | Last week, the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) released information about the readiness of incoming kindergarten students in the fall of 2017* – the children who will graduate from high school in 2030. The data include results for students overall, but also by gender, race/ethnicity, eligibility for free or reduced lunch, […]

| Post by Perry Papka | Over the last decade, Kentucky’s investment in need-based financial aid has not come close to keeping up with public tuition or with the cost of living.From 2008 to 2018, Kentucky saw: A 2% increase in funding for the College Access Program (CAP), from $60.5 million to $61.9 millionA 4% increase […]

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